I Married a Liberian As a white college student in the 1960’s, I married my anthropology professor who was a hereditary Mende chief from Liberia, West Africa. After three boys and twenty-four years together, Ben retired from the University of Michigan-Flint, and...

I Married a Mende Chief In the 1960’s, as a white college student, I married my anthropology professor, who was a hereditary Mende chief from Liberia, West Africa. In the course of our 41-year marriage, we made numerous trips to Liberia, including visits to his...

I spent the Christmas of 1983, in my husband’s father’s remote village in Liberia, West Africa. You see, the anthropology professor I had married as an Ohio farm girl in the 1960’s, was a descendant of the powerful Mende chief, Ngombu Tejjeh. It was not a...

I Married a Liberian Chief In the 1960’s, as a white college student, I married my anthropology professor who was a hereditary Mende chief from Liberia, West Africa. In our 41 years of marriage, he took me to Liberia and we lived with our three boys in his...

I Married a Liberian Chief In the 1960’s, as a white college student, I married my anthropology professor who was a hereditary Mende chief from Liberia, West Africa. In our 41 years of marriage, he took me to Liberia and we lived with our three boys in his...

I Married a Mende Man During the 1960’s, I married my anthropology professor. He was a hereditary chief of the Mende tribe in Liberia, West Africa. Rice remains the staple food of Mende life. On our honeymoon, Ben told me, “I want you to prepare rice very day. A...